Liba
Liba was given to 67 girls in 2025, #2,598 among girls’ names; 1,051 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Liba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Liba?
#2,598 among girls’ names, 2025
Liba rose from #3,284 in 2015 to #2,598 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 28.0 to 41.7 per million.
67 babies in 2025, the peak
Liba peaked in 2025, when 67 girls were given it, #2,598 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 58 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 67 | #2,598 | 41.7 |
| 2024 | 58 | #2,875 | 35.8 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,457 | 28.7 |
| 2022 | 50 | #3,255 | 30.5 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,193 | 31.1 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,125 | 31.5 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,967 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,818 | 22.9 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,647 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,398 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 50 | #3,284 | 28.0 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,817 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,832 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,186 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,761 | 23.3 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,809 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,432 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,052 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,280 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,258 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,699 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,521 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,426 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,593 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,562 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,907 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,123 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,563 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,090 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,270 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,837 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,510 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,415 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,881 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,409 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,240 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,599 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,874 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,565 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,995 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,852 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,385 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,578 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,752 | 7.1 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,564 | 4.4 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,117 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,656 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Liba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liba has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Liba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liba, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,051 Americans ever recorded as Liba. The median Liba alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 773 people named Liba (760 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 733 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 133 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 311 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 578 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Liba born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 47 | #362 | 11.2× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #693 | 2.9× |
Where Liba is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Liba is most over-represented in New York: since 1956 it was given 11.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Liba with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 19,530 babies since 1880, Liba is the second most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 67 of their 293 babies (23%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Liba
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Liba and names like it
- Compare Liba and LibbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLiba peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Liba since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Liba.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Liba alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.